That may or may not work, since text file newlines get altered in them. May have more luck with a "png" extension? -- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity.
On April 16, 2017 7:33:06 PM PDT, jim holtman <jholt...@gmail.com> wrote: >If the file is not too large, just change the extension to '.txt' and >attach it. Also include the code that you are using to read it in and >a definition of the what the data is; e.g., first two byte are >temperature, next four bytes are a station ID, .... > >Here is an example of reading in a binary file and I know that the >'raw' output matches the bytes that are in the file: > >> infile <- file("test.txt", 'rb') >> >> input <- readBin(infile, raw(), 100) >> >> input > [1] 50 4b 03 04 14 00 04 00 08 00 47 95 90 4a 9f 00 7a a0 99 01 00 >00 7a 08 00 00 13 00 75 00 5b 43 6f > [34] 6e 74 65 6e 74 5f 54 79 70 65 73 5d 2e 78 6d 6c 53 44 60 00 a4 >00 00 00 00 08 00 32 fa a9 3f 63 64 > [67] 60 69 11 61 60 60 30 00 62 10 f0 01 62 46 56 30 93 55 14 48 55 >e8 cd 15 fe e5 cf a3 df 6c ab ed 66 >[100] b1 >> > >here is the dump: > >$ od -a -t x --endian=big test.txt >0000000 P K etx eot dc4 nul eot nul bs nul G nak dle J us nul > 504b0304 14000400 08004795 904a9f00 >0000020 z sp em soh nul nul z bs nul nul dc3 nul u nul [ C > 7aa09901 00007a08 00001300 75005b43 >0000040 o n t e n t _ T y p e s ] . x m > 6f6e7465 6e745f54 79706573 5d2e786d > >Jim Holtman >Data Munger Guru > >What is the problem that you are trying to solve? >Tell me what you want to do, not how you want to do it. > > >On Sun, Apr 16, 2017 at 9:21 PM, Jeff Newmiller ><jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote: >> The mailing list has tight restrictions on attachments, so your >attachment was not let through. Read the Posting Guide, and note that >sometimes success requires some extended understanding of how your mail >software works, and we probably don't know the details either. You >might have success changing the file extension or sending a link to the >file on a file storage website like Google Drive or Dropbox. >> -- >> Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. >> >> On April 16, 2017 3:49:07 PM PDT, "M.M saifuddin" ><mmsaifuddi...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>I need to view the attached binary file. but can not read it, >instead >>>am >>>getting very weird( i think garbage) numbers. >>> >>>The values are Temperature data so it should be somewhat in between >250 >>>to >>>500. >>> >>>Can any altruist view it and give me the R code to view it. >>> >>>I am attaching the file. Please help me if you can. >>> >>>TIA >>>______________________________________________ >>>R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >>>https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >>>PLEASE do read the posting guide >>>http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >>>and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide >http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.